Series 17463

District Court (Second District : Weber County) Criminal case indexes

Dates: 1879-1947.

2.00 cubic feet and 1 microfilm reel

These records are housed in the Utah State Archives' permanent storage room.

Scope and Content

This series consists of criminal case alphabetic indexes created by the Court, to record the names of the parties involved in criminal actions and provide assigned case numbers, facilitate clerical management of and access to the case files. The index contains defendant's name, register of action page number, and case file number. Weber County was in the Third District Court from January 21, 1859-January 19, 1880; First District Court from February 20, 1880-March 9, 1892; Fourth District Court from March 10, 1892-January 5, 1896 and Second District Court from January 6, 1896-[ongoing]. Weber County retained their indexes as they transferred from district to district.

Arrangement

Alphabetical by first letter of defendant surname

Related Records

Information and indictment record books from the District Court (Second District : Weber County), Series 1588, serves as an index for criminal case files heard by the court.

Criminal case files from the District Court (Fourth District), Series 1629, record the names of defendants involved in criminal actions and provides assigned case numbers.

Plaintiff's index from the District Court (Fourth District), Series 1666, also cover the later territorial period

Criminal case files from the District Court (Second District : Weber County), Series 6954, contains the entire case file listed in these indexes.

Criminal registers of actions from the District Court (Fourth District), Series 17462, contains a listing of actions taken in each case.

Civil and criminal registers of actions from the District Court (Fourth District), Series 17825, contains a listing of actions taken in each case.

Plaintiff index from the District Court (First District), Series 21018, also cover the later territorial period.

Criminal registers of action from the District Court (Second District : Weber County), Series 26958, contains indexes for criminal case files from the court created between 1879 and 1947.

Additional Forms

This series is available on microfilm.

Access Restrictions

This series is classified as Public.

Preferred Citation

Cite the Utah State Archives and Records Service, the creating agency name, the series title, and the series number.

Processing Note

Court indexes were first scheduled in 1968 as permanent records. This series was archivally processed by David Clark in June 2000.